The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-01
Is view as to what the evidence tended to

All in all the efforts made by the attorneys
in the case were fully up to what the public
expected, and when the twenty hours Of
talk was brought to close the opinion pre-
vailed that La Sale county could boast some
Of the strongest advocates in the state Of Ill
inois.
At O'Clock yesterday the instructions,
which we're strong for the will, we're given
TO the jury, and in charge of Acting Deputy
Stevens they retired. At the time we 20 10
press the jury Is still out. The general
belief is that there will be no agreement.
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DIR. HATHAWAY CONCLUDED.
him that he comprehended the matter.
did not on my direct examination swear
that directed Armstrong to incorporate
into the will the gift of the ,ilverSare. l
think that r. partially, l. 9, momentarily,
oomprehended. don't think that he would
have put it in if had not suggested it. |
can't definitely fix dates of any of these
meetings. When | spoke to r. about the
fund for the library knew that he did not
comprehend what he was doing | didn I
intend TO take any advantage of him. As |
see 1t now think | made "A mistake. | was
then innocent. | thought it would be II
grand thing for Ottawa When | suggested
the monument doubt if he compounded 1t.
| called his attention to the fact that Gil.
lens boy was named after him; he said,
ISL 900" | don't know who fixed the
times of payments. "Ny mind is a perfect
blank on that subject" When on May 2
'84, | got the witnesses to the will, | didn' I
think him competent 10 make will re-
peated to Mr.. Il on Apr. 30, May | and
May tn, speech that Mr.. Armstrong had
told him to make. | at that time knew
that X. could not hold any conversation for
any length of time. did not do hat for the
purpose of deceiving the witnesses. |
never thought what the object was; Arm
strong told me to do so. | simply wanted
him to make little speech. He didn't
speak it as we suggested. was there as
the family physician, and knowing him to
be incompetent participated in getting him
to execute the will. To almost every one
that have talked to about it have said
that K. was not insane. On May | was
with r. when the witnesses came. but don t
remember anything particular that passed
between R. and the witnesses Armstrong
read the will, and as he came to certain
places, Arm strong was stopped by r., who
corrected him. Armstrong made the cor
rections when suggested, and on the back
Of the will note of the fact was made by
the witnesses. 1t took about twenty min
utes to read the will and make the altera-
tons. After that got R. glass of whiskey
for he had grown weak As took K. to
the hallway 10 go upstairs, the witnesses
came around him and shook hands at
goodbye. Before decoration day when |
talked to X about his will, r. didn't seem
to understand much about the matter. "He
seemed to catch gimpses of it, When
told him that he hadn't dvne right and
ought to give the girls horse and buggy,
he said he thought SO too. On June 6 |
talked to him about the r. /. stock. don't
think he understood much Ispoke. Iwas in
hopes that he would. | suggested to X.
the change in the will relative to Jack be-
cause Sis told me that r. held note for
$500 against Jack. In drawing the second
will we had 3 or 4 meetings. think the
viii Was completed at least week before it
wa, executed. think In that time 1t was
in the hands of Armstrong. | don't know
whether Armstrong had the first will or
copy of it, but the second will was very like
the first one don't know whether he met
with r. at any time without me- l suggest
ed the insertion of the provision that gave
to sis the live stock. We had two discus
sions in which it was suggested to give
ISIS" the barn. We did not fix it up Mt
one meeting alone because we wanted him,
before it was incorporated in the will, to
understand it. We had the several meet
ings at making the will so that he might, as
we hoped, get to un ierstand it. About
that time we talked about the Sisters of
Mercy. | didn't hear the will as corrected
read to R. until in R. library just after
noon June 81. This was about an hour and
half before the witnesses came On that
day went up right after dinner. Arm
strong was not at the house in the morning
June q. When h. heard the provision
about the livestock and said, 81 want 1t
myself" he got very much excited. | gave
him whiskey and bromide. Since Apr 8
had been in the habit of giving him $50
grains of bromide and equal parts of choral
and until May % belladonna. gave to
drops of digitalis at times when mis- heart
was irregular. The ordinary dose Of whis-
key was two tsblespoonfuls every two hours.
At times we used gin instead. About July
IA or Is R. improved considerably, so that
after July 81 ceased to visit him and in